Hedy Lamarr's face still astonishes with its almost unnatural perfection, and, while everyone in Georg Misch's docu "Calling Hedy Lamarr" seems duty bound to mention her legendary beauty, there's ...

Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, “the Angelina Jolie of her day,” was also an avid inventor and the person behind advances in communication technology in the 1940s that led to today’s Wi-Fi, GPS, and ...

Hedy Lamarr’s early life was the stuff of movies: As a teenage starlet, she became the face of “Ecstasy,” one of the most controversial films of its day. By 18, she was the Jewish trophy wife of a ...

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (Ziegfeld Girl, Samson and Delilah) was known as the world’s most beautiful woman – Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting ...

Author Stephen Michael Shearer will be at D.G. Wills Books in La Jolla to discuss his new book "Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr" on March 31. This is a coffee table companion book to his ...

During the height of her movie career, Hedy Lamarr—who was born on this day, Nov. 9, in 1914—got most of her press for her acting roles and for her many marriages and divorces. She was a beauty who ...

At the height of her career, Hedy Lamarr, a Jewish emigree from Nazi Austria, co-starred in movies opposite Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and Bob Hope. Even when her career was on the ...